News Cameroon » Northwest: Legacy of history drives Cameroon's rift

English-speaking regions - The two mainly English-speaking southern provinces are home to around a fifth of Cameroon's 23 million population. Named the Northwest Region and Southwest Region, they jut into southeastern Nigeria. The English-speaking areas ...

Julienne Namata, wife of the most senior government official in the Batibo subdivision of Cameroon’s English speaking northwest, prays for the safe return of her husband, Joseph Namata. She says he was taken from their residence on Sunday as he was ...

Head of Caritas Nigeria, Rev. Fr Evaristus Bassey, in a press statement said the Anglophone crisis in south and northwest Cameroon was beyond the political and security parameters, posing a huge humanitarian condition. They have been dependent on the ...

Authorities have imposed a week-long night curfew in the tense English-speaking Northwest Cameroon, citing an "imminent attack" by secessionists "with support of mercenaries" from the Niger Delta in nearby Nigeria. A leaked internal memo from Defence ...

“Fresh acts of violence in the (anglophone) northwest and southwest regions of Cameroon have caused the death of at least three members of the security forces and a number of civilians,” the EU statement said. “Such acts are unacceptable and must be ...

We are harassed' - Cameroon's Northwest and Southwest Regions are home to an anglophone minority that accounts for about a fifth of the country's population and which has long complained of discrimination at the hands of the French-speaking majority.

Most of Cameroon’s oil is found off the coast of the Anglophone region, according to the International Crisis Group. Interviews with a dozen residents and separatist leaders in the English-speaking Southwest and Northwest regions reveal another worrying ...

News Cameroon » Northwest: Curfew in restive Cameroon region

Yaoundé. Authorities have imposed a week-long night curfew in the tense English speaking Northwest Cameroon, citing an “imminent attack” by secessionists “with support of mercenaries” from the Niger Delta in nearby Nigeria. A leaked internal memo ...

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Separatist fighters in Cameroon killed three soldiers and wounded four ... the past year in a bid to gain independence for the Anglophone Southwest and Northwest regions. “ADF forces carried out the attacks,” said Cho Ayaba, the ...

Separatist fighters in Cameroon killed three soldiers and wounded four others ... over the past year in a bid to gain independence for the Anglophone Southwest and Northwest regions. “ADF forces carried out the attacks,” said Cho Ayaba, leader of ...